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lii+393 pages with 3 folding maps with one in back pocket, 18 illustrations and plates, appendices and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with blind-stamped edges to the cover. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 116. First edition. In the wake of the navigators who opened up the Pacific came missionaries, traders and finally administrators. In the early decades of the nineteenth century Polynesia was a rich field for the curious and calculating, for writers and adventurers. The pioneer European settlers in Eastern Polynesia were ministers and mechanics sent out on the crest of an Evangelical wave that merged with the currents and eddies of trade and whaling to break down the isolation of the islands and their inhabitants. Among the pioneers was the Welshman John Davies who spent just over fifty years of his life on Tahiti and neighboring… Read More

Cambridge University Press/Hakluyt Society. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (church history french polynesia)

Hakluyt Society / Cambridge University Press 1961. FIRST EDITION, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

London: The Hakluyt Society/Cambridge University Press, 1961 Hardcover, (Pastel blue cloth with gilt titles and gilt device decorating front and rear covers), Sub-Titled: "with supplementary papers from the correspondence of the missionaries" Edited by C.W. Newbury. (Liv) +392pp. Frontispiece, Fold-out maps, illustrations and plans throughout, including the map ( The Island of Otaheite according to the survey taken by Captain Cook, 1769 in the sleeve inside rear cover. Unopened. Top edge trimmed, others uncut.Tight. No names or other markings. No D/j. Near Fine.

Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to vg. Quarto. LIV, 392pp. Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. In the wake of the navigators who finally opened up the Pacific came missionaries, traders and finally administrators. In the early decades of the 19th century Polynesia was a rich field for the curious and the calculating, for writers and adventurers. The pioneer European settlers in Eastern Polynesia were ministers and mechanics sent out on the crest of an Evangelical wave the merged with the currents and eddies of trade and whaling to break down the isolation of the islands and their inhabitants. Among the pioneers was Welshman John Davies (1772-1855) who spent just over 50 years of his life on Tahiti and neighbouring islands. He witnessed the rise of the Pomare dynasty, conversion to Christianity, reaction to attempts at theocratic government, and the gradual encroachment of… Read More

Cambridge: University Press. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Hardback. DJ is slightly spotted under the lamenation; pages' edges are frayed .

London: Cambridge / Hakluyt Society 1961. (Cloth) 392pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Frontispiece, illus., maps. Very minor shelf wear and tanning to spine of clipped wrapper. Former owner's name to endpaper. Internally without fault. SECOND SERIES, No.CXVI..

Cambridge University Press/Hakluyt Society, 1961-01-01. Second Series. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Note: Lacking the map of the Island of Otaheite, otherwise very good. pages are tight and unmarked, with dust jacket.

Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1961. A very clea, tidy copy of volume CXVI in the second series of the Hakluyt Society Puiblications. 20 ilustrations and maps plus map in rear pocket... First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Octavo.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961. With supplementary papers from the correspondence of the missionaries. Edited by C. W. Newbury. Pp. liv+392, folding frontispiece plus 8 plates, text illustrations, 4 folding maps (1 in pocket at end), folding chart, appendices, index; demy 8vo; blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and ruled in blind, the top fore-corners faintly bruised; uncut, partly unopened; a couple of short edge splits; The Hakluyt Society, Cambridge, 1961. Series II, Volume CXVI.

Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1961 First edition. Edited by C. W. Newbury. liv, 392pp. 11 plates (1 folding), 6 text illustrations, 3 folding maps, folding table, large folding maps in rear pocket. Notes, index. Bibliography. Gilt-lettered and decorated blue cloth. A very fine and crisp copy (uncut) with printed dust jacket (lightly foxed, spine-faded). Davies was missionary to the South Sea Islands who spent 50 years on Tahiti and neighboring islands observing the "gradual encroachment of alien commerce and European rule." This account provides a wealth of information on decades of political and economic change. C. N. Newbury, editor of Davies' manuscript History, includes an epilogue which continues the history to 1860. Also included are supplementary papers from the correspondence of the missionaries..

Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society At The University Press [Second Series: No. 116], 1961., 1961. 8vo. pp. liv, 392. with half-title. folding table. 4 folding maps & charts (1 in rear pocket), 9 plates (incl. folding frontis.), 8 text illus. (5 full-page). original blind & gilt-stamped cloth. National Maritime Museum Cat. I 637.. Hardcover.